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Portland State University PDXScholar University Archives: Campus Publications & The Pacific Sentinel Productions 10-2019 The Pacific Sentinel, October 2019 Portland State University. Student Publications Board Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pacificsentinel Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Portland State University. Student Publications Board, "The Pacific Sentinel, October 2019" (2019). The Pacific Sentinel. 23. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pacificsentinel/23 This Book is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Pacific Sentinel by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. rrhe Pacific Se11tinel (ktolwr 2019 \'olunw \' lsstl<' I ,...,., ~~ J . Life Saving Being Fat in The Legacy of Sexism and Ill Advice for Police Portland Elliotf Smith Sexuality I' ' ~ TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 Letter from the Editor l JL NEWS 4 Life-Saving Advice for Police 6 Former PSU Chemistry Professor Sentenced for Posting Child Porn on Blog 7 Look to the Ants FEATURE 8 Back to School Resource Guide Women's Resource Center, Student Media, SHAC: Center for Student Health and Counseling, Party in the Park, Millar Library Online Chat, 5th Ave Cinema Academic and Student Recreation Center, Student Legal Services OPINION 12 Looking Past the Male Gaze 14 Schooling the Sexist 15 Looking for the One 16 Superhero Burnout 18 The FWord This Month ARTS AND CULTURE 20 Friendship and Trauma Fuel a Bold Thriller in Braid 21 And We Back! 22 When an Album Becomes a Farewell 24 Reflecting on the Legacy of Elliott Smith 7he Pacific Sentinel is Portland State University's monthly student-run magazine Twitter: Pac_Sentinel lnstagram and Facebook: PSUPacific Sentinel ~~i11'11\~i11n~1 · · !LETTER FROM THE EDITOR The Fall term is here. Summer's end comes too soon for some and can't come soon enough for others. As the temperature cools down, the pressures of school heat up. Before we know it, we will be wishing we had more time before finals in December as we cross our fingers and hope for the best while heading off into winter break. The good news is, we do indeed have time before those potentially stress-inducing exams. The bad news is, it's not always easy to make time for our studies, for our personal lives, for our jobs outside of school, and for taking care of ourselves. As we settle back into our routines at Portland State, let's remember to check in with our selves and each other. Over my last three years at PSU, I can't advocate enough for self-advocacy. There are roughly 30,000 community members at our school, and it can be easy to feel lost in the machine we are trying to navigate through while gaining the knowledge and skills we need to succeed after college. The best news is: You are not alone. At PSU, I have found that our fellow community members really do want us all to succeed. I have found a community at this campus that wants everyone to be able to live the best life possible. Unfortunately, I have discovered that most people here can't read minds ... yet-actually, that's probably for the best. If you need help, make sure to ask for it, and if you don't feel comfortable asking for it yourself, chances are good there are others who are willing to advocate for you. This community is big, but it is kind. If you aren't sure what classes you should take, talk to your advisors, the professors you like, and most importantly, your peers. We all want the best for you and we want to help you find the resources and educational path that is most suited for what you need both right now and in your future. It can be hard, and inconvenient, to make friends and talk to your peers, professors, and other administrators on campus. But if you make time to reach out and ask questions, I guarantee your academic life will be better for it. Yes, building a wealth of knowledge and skills are important, but so are building relationships. While I am advocating for building relationships, a big part of that involves trust and respect for others and their boundaries. We are all busy, but even just taking the miniscule effort to say hello can go a long way-so can taking the equally minimal effort to say hello back. This summer we lost peers to gun violence, we have lost students to suicide, and we regularly lose students to a financial burden that they can't sustain. Talk to your peers, talk to your profes sors, talk to your advisors, talk to the financial aid office, talk to your deans, talk to the president of the university. Reach out. Sometimes it might seem like reaching out isn't always working, but if you try, sometimes you just might find, you get what you need. Love, respect, and all the best for our greater PSU community, Party on, Jake Johnson Executive Editor 1he Pacific Sentinel TJTE PACIFIC SENTINEL 3 Llf E-SAVING ADVICE fOR POLICE: RESTRAIN WITH RESTRAINT Last month, following a long investigation, Dallas Morning News and NBC5 by Margo Craig reported an incident that occurred in Dallas, Texas in 2016 that was virtually identical to an event in Portland last November. The incident in Dallas received national attention after a federal judge rejected Dallas police objections and ordered the release of body camera footage recording what happened three years ago. We watched a man die in police custody. The video was graphic. The man's death was unnecessary. The body camera footage of the Dallas event from 2016 is comparable to body camera footage of an incident that took place in Portland in 2018. The similarity is uncanny. D allas, TX, August 2016 Portland, OR, November 2018 State Police, the Oregon State Medical On August 10, 2016, 32-year-old Tony Timpa In Portland, November 2018, Richard Barry Examiner's office determines the cause and called 911 for help. He told the dispatcher died in virtually identical circumstances. manner of death. Medical examiners tend to that he suffered from schizophrenia and According to the body camera footage from attribute fatalities like these to drug overdose, depression, that he had not been taking his Portland State University Police, campus police thereby ruling the death an "accident" that prescribed medication, and that he had used found Barry running in the street shouting, officers did not cause. That's how Barry drugs. When the police arrived, Timpa had disorganized and disheveled. Barry is clearly died, according to the Multnomah Medical already been handcuffed to a sign in a parking agitated and paranoid, experiencing some Examiner. lot by a security officer. The police are talking type of psychotic break, either drug induced or The medical examiners in Dallas, on the amongst themselves when Timpa starts to yell psychiatric in nature. other hand, ruled Timpa's death a "homicide" for help. An officer instructs Timpa to "get on Barry may not have called 911, but he did from "sudden cardiac arrest, due to the toxic the ground." Timpa replies, "No, you're gonna ask police for help. Instead, what happened to effects of cocaine and the stress associated kill me." TonyTimpa happened to Richard Barry. Barry with physical restraint." A grand jury found The police force Timpa to the ground and is forced to the ground and restrained on his the officers acted recklessly and voted to indict restrain him-prone (on his stomach) with his stomach with his hands handcuffed behind them for misdemeanor deadly conduct. But the hands handcuffed behind his back and legs zip his back and legs pinned to the ground. Like Dallas County District Attorney dropped the tied together-for 14 minutes. All the while, Timpa, Barry struggles and yells "Help me" charges and the officers are back on duty. Timpa pleads for help. After long minutes of over and over and over again. Like Timpa, Dallas Police officers, like officers with the struggling, Timpa suddenly stops moving and the moment comes when Barry is suddenly Portland Police Bureau (PPB) and Portland is silent. silent and ceases to struggle, a moment first State University Campus Police and Public During the incident, the police crack jokes responders somehow fail to notice. Instead, Safety, are certified first responders. They are and mock Timpa. When paramedics arrive, police crack some jokes. Paramedics arrive and trained to respond to medical emergencies, to they realize that Timpa is unresponsive. perform an assessment so sloppy and cavalier provide pre-hospital treatment like first aid and Paramedics give him a sedative anyway. had it been a practical for the most basic level CPR. Since the footage was released last month, Timpa is unconscious for at least four of EMT certification, they would have failed. the Dallas officers offered an explanation: when minutes before the paramedics administer The footage cuts off before anyone realizes Timpa became unresponsive, they thought he CPR. By that time, Timpa is dead. that Barry is unresponsive. Despite CPR and was being "overdramatic" and they said officers epinephrine, Barry is pronounced dead at the made mocking remarks to elicit a response hospital. fromTimpa. For those that die in the custody of Oregon Portland police, on the other hand, have not had to offer any explanations. But no one seems to be demanding any. Even with footage (a rarity since PPB doesn't use body cameras) no one is talking about how incompetent the first responders were with Richard Barry.